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THE WAX PACK TH E WAX PACK On the Open Road in Search of Baseball’s Afterlife BrAd BA luKjiAn University of Nebraska Press | Lincoln © 2020 by Brad Balukjian Topps® trading cards are used courtesy of the Topps Company, Inc. All rights reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Balukjian, Brad, author. Title: The wax pack: on the open road in search of baseball’s afterlife / Brad Balukjian. Description: Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2020. | Includes bibliographical references. Identifiers: lccn 2019032953 isbn 9781496218742 (hardback) isbn 9781496221506 (epub) isbn 9781496221513 (mobi) isbn 9781496221520 (pdf) Subjects: lcsh: Baseball players— United States— Biography. | Baseball— United States— History— 20th century. | Baseball cards— United States. | Balukjian, Brad— Travel— United States. Classification: lcc gv865.a1 b3235 2020 | ddc 796.357092 [B]— dc23 lc record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2019032953 Set in Minion Pro by Laura Ebbeka. Baseball is very much a game about fathers and sons, as the following pages attest. My gratitude to my dad will hopefully speak for itself, but I want to use this space to thank my mom. For every game my dad took me to, my mom took me to a baseball card shop in some converted garage or basement in rural Rhode Island to indulge my passion. Thank you, Mom, for always giving me the confidence to be me. I love you. Security is mostly a superstition. It does not exist in nature, nor do the children of men as a whole experience it. Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. Life is a daring adventure, or nothing. HELEN KELLER ConTEnT s Author’s Note xi Prologue xiii 1. Warming Up 1 2. Happy Meals 9 3. Yeager Bombs 27 4. Camp Templeton 41 5. Houston, We Have a Problem 59 6. Randy Is Ready 73 7. Carman’s Cradle 89 8. The Battery 103 9. Chasing Carlton 115 10. Leader of the Pack 129 11. Vincent van Gone 155 12. Is It September Yet? 167 13. Nobody Home 183 14. Gone Fishing 197 15. Catching Carlton 211 16. Captain Comeback 219 17. Straight Outta Compton 233 Epilogue 247 Acknowledgments 253 Notes 257

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